Following some major changes to the VK IRLP/Echolink backbone, the performance of AllStar node 2199 has been improved considerably. The audio dropouts that plagued the system appear to have gone in early testing, and I'm getting a clean feed. The distance has been reduced from around 16000km to 800km between the AllStar node and the rest of the network. Latency across the link is now a little over 20mS RTT (down from around 200mS), and most likely less jitter. I do eventually intend to move Asterisk to the same physical server as the new hub, but we are having issues getting Asterisk compiled correctly for the environment (the system is running in a vserver virtual machine). Once the final move has been made, AllStar will also have the capability to handle many simultaneous connections, probably limited by the resources of the host machine (which is a fairly beefy box, I am told). Give 2199 a whirl and see if you can confirm my test results. 73 de VK3JED http://vkradio.com